Our design team always strives to create the essence and tell a story of a destination so that guests have an immediate feeling of being immersed in the location and culture. This particular way we work is a perfect synergy with Rosewood and their key message of “Sense of Place”, and why we love and respect working with them and delivering on their brand. In this instance, we needed to build on the legacy but carefully bring in a re-design and modernisation without losing anything of the essence of what was and is for guests who return year after year and pass on their love of this island retreat to their families.

The gentle and revealing choreography of arrival at the resort was reimagined to deliver a whole new experience. The arrival cannot be underestimated in the guest journey when having potentially travelled for many hours to get there, clever design can elicit smoothed brows, dropped shoulders, and the unravelling of airplane muscle knots, just through a gentle engagement with the senses. Subliminal and visual, immediately refreshing and a familiar sense of place and coming home.

Guests welcome the luxury they expect, but also appreciate deep respect for the environment, it is after all the main attraction. The refresh is still composed of a small number of structures in the iconic angular shapes that are synonymous with the resort. Added was a new dining pavilion for the Beach Grill using natural materials of wood and stone that work with the original architecture.

Hurricane Irma in 2017 wreaked destruction on the island, so our deep knowledge of working in the Caribbean hurricane belt allowed us to employ our proofing in the new design features. The resort still nestles within the landscape, private cottages dotted amongst the palms and vegetation, offering discreet barefoot luxury with minimum impact to the environment.

Hurricane Irma in 2017 wreaked destruction on the island, so our deep knowledge of working in the Caribbean hurricane belt allowed us to employ our proofing in the new design features. The resort still nestles within the landscape, private cottages dotted amongst the palms and vegetation, offering discreet barefoot luxury with minimum impact to the environment.

Guest rooms have been modernised and some combined to create beautiful light-filled suites with natural materials and delivering subtle layers of contemporary comfort. How guests move through the space and use it are all intrinsic and thoughtful in the design.

In helping write the new chapter of this storied resort, our team never lost sight of the original Laurence Rockefeller legacy in their intention to deliver design excellence that would honour his island resort, and carry it forward for new and future guests. The history and sense of place are still there in everything, although now it’s polished and new.